Books like Design Your Own Furniture by Jim Stack

A practical guide with 30 global designs, showing how to build stylish, designer-level furniture from common hardware store materials using straightforward, step‑by‑step methods.

Learn to design and build a wide range of furniture—from tables and chairs to cabinets and bed frames—using the De Cristoforo Component System and proven woodworking techniques.

Comprehensive guide to designing and building living room furniture for amateur woodworkers.

What's inside "The Essential Woodworker?" I think it's a gold mine of traditional hand tool techniques. Assisted by more than 530 hand-drawn illustrations, plus dozens of photos, Wearing walks you through the process of becoming a hand-tool woodworker. He starts with sharpening and ends with dovetailed casework. To illustrate all of the basic principles, Wearing deftly guides you through building a few small projects. He starts, most ingeniously, with building a table, which teaches many of the core skills you need to build more advanced casework. He then works you through open casework, backs, plinths, doors and then drawers. He presents no shortcuts or cheats. All the the methods are "neat and workmanlike" and would stand up to the scrutiny of an 18th-century master joiner. But most of all, I think that Wearing can help you organize everything you know (and don't yet know) about handwork into a framework that makes sense and is the baseline for every skill you will acquire in the future.